Quotes About Ownership

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

If the people are the landlords of the public airwaves and the television and radio stations are the tenants, why don't the tenants pay rent?

Our public lands contain a wealth of natural resources—trees, oil, gas, coal, gold, silver, copper, iron, zinc, and many other minerals, onshore and off. We own these lands. Yet under current law the corporations control their extraction and pay very little to Uncle Sam for what revenues and profits they reap. Sometimes, in fact, they pay just about nothing.

If a man own land, the land owns him.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.

The world is his, who has money to go over it.

I am the owner of the sphere,Of the seven stars and the solar year,Of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain.

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.

....whether your jewel was got from the mine or from an auctioneer.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

We will continue to focus on hiring and retaining versatile and talented employees, and continue to weight their compensation to stock options rather than cash. We know our success will be largely affected by our ability to attract and retain a motivated employee base, each of whom must think like, and therefore must actually be, an owner."21

If he is a bastard, at least he is our bastard'

Blame me not for my mistakes, for that's common, but surely do for my achievements which I'm equally unaware of. - Ramana Pemmaraju

Not everyone who owns it, Loves it; nor everyone who Loves it, Can own it!

You're not to achieve anything, on the contrary you are to drop whatever you have accumulated over ages and its difficult mind you, not that its part of you, but YOU have owned this mental clutter unconsciously. The moment you unburden yourself, for the first time YOU ARE! never before."

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.

Words. And meaning. You can't own one and not the other.